Warren breaks school career scoring mark

By Casey Krautkramer

Marathon senior six foot, 10-inch center Grant Warren broke the school career points record on Friday during his team’s dominating 92-47 home win against Abbotsford. He needed to score 16 points against Abbotsford to break Cody Hanke’s school record of 1,441 career points from 2007-2011. Warren ended up scoring 30 points and Hanke gave him Friday’s game ball.

Warren now has 1,456 career points with five regular-season games and the playoffs remaining this year. He has scored 409 points thus far this season. Warren scored 647 points last season which is good for second place on the school’s single-season scoring list. Hanke maintains the school’s single-season scoring mark with 682 points in the 2010-11 when Marathon’s varsity boys basketball team last won the WIAA Division 4 state championship.

Warren is tied with three other former Marathon varsity boys basketball players for scoring the fifth most points in a single game, following his 36 points against Wittenberg-Birnamwood last season. Donovan Free also scored 36 points against Wisconsin Rapid Assumption in the 2016-17 season. Paul Syron scored 36 points against Athens in the 1964-65 season and Tom Vetter scored 36 points against Stratford in the 1958-59 season. Francis Gertschen still holds Marathon’s school record with 41 points against Rudolph in the 1953-54 season.

On Friday, Warren also secured a gamehigh 17 rebounds in the team’s victory against Abbotsford. Senior Tyler Underwood and sophomore Drew Woelfel added 12 points each and sophomore True Thurs had 11. Senior Cooper Hoeksema led Marathon with nine assists and Underwood had seven. Hoeksema also paced the Red Raiders with four steals while Thurs and Underwood had three apiece. Thurs led the team with two blocks.

Marathon beat Stevens Point Pacelli, 83-70, on Thursday at home. Warren led the Red Raiders with 26 points while See CAREER SCORING LEADER/ page 14

HANDING OFF THE RECORD- Former Marathon varsity boy’s basketball player Cody Hanke, to the left, gave Grant Warren Friday’s game ball after Warren broke his school career scoring r ecord. PHOTO BY PAM WARREN Career scoring leader

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Hoeksema added 18 and Underwood had 10. Woelfel contributed 10 points. Hoeksema paced Marathon with nine rebounds while Warren added eight and Thurs had seven.

The Red Raiders currently have an 18-1 record this season and they are ranked No. 1 for the first time this season in this week’s wissports.net Division 4 coaches poll. Marathon has unseated Darlington for the top spot in the Division 4 rankings following Darlington’s loss to Division 2 West Salem. The Red Raiders remain undefeated with a 12-0 record in the Marawood South Conference.